Merve Özçelik

Özçelik, M. (In progress). Teaching English in the post-earthquake context of Turkey: A narrative inquiry with English teachers. TESOL Quarterly, Special Issue.

Özçelik, M. & Canjura, J. (Submitted). Unpacking the Narrative Complexities of YouTube: A Multi- Participant Framework for Social Media Analysis. Narrative Inquiry.

Özçelik, M. & Canagarajah, S. (Forthcoming). Words and wounds: Linguistic approaches to gender-based violence and trauma. In J. Purkarthofer, M. Oostendorp, & B. Busch (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Trauma. 

Milani, T. & Özçelik, M. (Forthcoming). Linguistic citizenship and migration. In A. F. Selvi (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Applied Linguistics and Language Education.

Özçelik, M. & Milani, T. (Under review). Felt into being: Language, affect, and the gendered body. In P. Torres, & V. Ramanathan (Eds.), Language and the Body: Learning, (Dis)Abilities, and Identities. Routledge. 

Book reviews 

Özçelik, M. (2023). [Review of the book Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions, by S. Consoli & S. Ganassin]. Applied Linguistics. 

Conference Presentations 

Özçelik, M. & Işeri, M. (May 2025). Empowering teachers through a trauma-informed workshop after the February 6 earthquake in Turkey. [Paper presentation]. Social Justice in ELT 2025, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (March 2025). Toward a multi-participant framework for social media narrative analysis. [Paper presentation]. AAAL 2025, Denver, Colorado. 

Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (July 2024). Raciolinguistics and ridesharing: Race and language ideologies in a transient mobile contact zone.  [Paper presentation]. Association of Language Awareness 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany. 

Özçelik, M. (2024, March 16-19). Teaching traumatized students in the post-earthquake context of Turkey: Qualitative action research with English teachers. In M. Özçelik & S. Canagarajah (Co-chairs), The Nexus of Trauma and Tanguage: A Pedagogy for Survivors. [Colloquium presentation]. 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Houston, TX. 

Özçelik, M. & Canjura, J. (2024, January 17). Creating the raciolinguistic other in uber rides: Race, language, and nation in transient mobile contact zones. [Paper presentation]. Migration Studies Project, The Pennsylvania State University. 

Özçelik, M. (2023, March 18-21). Discursive negotiation of power in the realm of patriarchy: Women’s stories of survival from violence [Paper presentation]. 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR. 

Özçelik, M., & Erduyan, I. (2023, March 8-10). Linguistic manifestation of trauma within the narratives of violence survivor women [Paper presentation]. Language and Trauma Workshop, Essen, Germany. 

Özçelik, M., Canjura, J., Xiaozheng, D., Bastos, P., & Msimango, M. J. (2023, December 6). Meeting Halfway: Strategies for Native English Speakers in Communication with Non-Native Speakers [Paper presentation]. Migration Studies Project, The Pennsylvania State University. 

Özçelik, M. (2023, January 8). Investigating reciprocal reflexivity in trauma-related narrative inquiry through researcher development and empowerment [Paper presentation]. APLNG Roundtable, The Pennsylvania State University. 

Özçelik, M., Işeri, M. Sami, T., Tari, H., Kuzu, M., & Öztürk, B. (2023, June 10) Öğretmenler için travma ile bilgilendirilmiş eğitim çalıştayı: Okullarda deprem travmasıyla mücadele [Trauma-informed Education Workshop for Teachers: Navigating Earthquake Trauma at School] [Workshop Chair]. Adıyaman, Turkey. 

Özçelik, M. (2022, July 13-16). “I’m second-hand but he’s brand-new”: Linguistic construction of symbolic violence in divorced women’s narratives [Paper presentation].  Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, Ghent, Belgium. 

Çetin, M. & Özçelik, M. (2021, March 23-25). Women murder or men terror? A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Turkish online media articles about femicide[Paper presentation]. Gender Challenge Conference (Virtual). 

Özçelik, M.,Arıcan, B. N., Bakay, Ö., Sarmış, E., Bayazıt, N. G., Ergelen, Ö. & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). HisNet: A Polarity Lexicon based on WordNet for Emotion Analysis. Paper presented at Global WordNet Conference (Virtual Conference).  

Arıcan, B. N., Özçelik, M., Aslan, D. B., Sarmış, E., Parlar, S. & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). Creating Domain Dependent Turkish WordNet and SentiNet. Paper presented at Global WordNet Conference (Virtual Conference). 

Bakay, Ö., Ergelen, Ö., Sarmış, E., Yıldırım, S., Kocabalcıoğlu, A., Arıcan, B. N.,Özçelik, M.,Sanıyar, E., Kuyrukçu, O., Avar, B. & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). Turkish WordNet KeNeẗ. Paper presented at Global WordNet Conference (Virtual Conference). 

Marşan, B., Kara, N.,Özçelik, M.,Arıcan, B. N.,Cesur, N.,Kuzgun, A., Sanıyar, E., Kuyrukçu, O. & Yıldız, O. T. (2021). Building the Turkish FrameNet. Paper presented at Global WordNet Conference (Virtual Conference). 

Kara, N., Marşan, B., Özçelik, M., Arıcan, B. N., Kuzgun, A., Cesur, N., Aslan, D. B. & Yıldız, O. T. (2020). Creating A Syntactically Felicitous Constituency Treebank For Turkish. Paper presented at the Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU), 2020, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Kuzgun, A., Cesur, N., Arıcan, B. N., Özçelik, M., Marşan, B., Kara, N., Aslan, D. B. & Yıldız, O. T. (2020). On Building the Largest and Cross-Linguistic Turkish Dependency Corpus. Paper presented at the Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU), 2020, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Özçelik, M. (2021). Linguistic Construction of Oral Narratives in Turkish: Women's Stories of Survival and Power (Unpublished Master’s Thesis). Boğaziçi University, Turkey.